Karzai Assigns 2 Ministers To Get To Bottom Of Slaying

Terrorism Digest

February 20, 2002

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government appointed two Cabinet members Tuesday to investigate the killing of the aviation minister -- a death interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai has blamed on senior members of his administration. Abdul Rahman, the minister of civil aviation and tourism, was killed at the Kabul airport last week. Witnesses said he was beaten to death by Islamic pilgrims enraged that their flights to Saudi Arabia had been delayed. Karzai blamed the killing on a feud among members of his own government.